IT employment on the rise?

There are some signs that the market for information technology workers is improving, according to this News.com story.

A net 11 percent of chief information officers surveyed plan to add full-time information technology staff in the third quarter, [Robert Half Technology] said Thursday. That is the largest net percent of CIOs expecting to increase staff in three years, [the firm] said.

This jibes with some things I’ve heard from local tech workers and employers. I spoke with a salesperson for a major Houston-area IT outsourcing company a couple of weeks ago who said skilled technies are in the drivers’ seat again, able to command better salaries and more perks.

It’s not quite the heady days of the dot-com boom, but it’s better than it has been.

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Don’t count on it folks. They only want people with tons of experience. If you don’t have the experience already, switch careers. I did just that after getting a computer science degree a few years ago. I’m now a teacher and let me tell you, it was the best decision I ever made. I never have to worry about job security or coming in to fix a network at 3 A.M. The working hours, plus the pay that went way down below what I make now, are why I got out of the industry. If you want stability and decent working hours, avoid the IT industry. I used to love it when I didn’t know any better, lol.